[syslinux] [PATCH] Add some man pages.

Thomas Schmitt scdbackup at gmx.net
Sat Feb 1 02:59:10 PST 2014


Hi,

> Op 2014-01-20 om 09:51 schreef Peter Jones:
> > Add very basic pages for:
> > isohybrid - It's not particularly more useful than --help, but my QA
> >             department really wants this to exist.

Geert Stappers wrote:
> FWIW: I didn't see any mailinglist response on the provided patch.

The pipelines seem to be full. :))

Somehow i missed the post of Peter Jones. Else i would have
pointed out that the man page is a lesser problem of isohybrid.c
from the viewpoint of QA.

utils/isohybrid.c has serious problems with GPT (for EFI isohybrid)
and APM (for some Macs with whatever firmware).
  http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-May/017843.html
  http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-May/017871.html


I did not propose patches yet, because i'd prefer to have the code
of isohybrid.c indepedent of the isohybrid code in libisofs.
It would help with future bug hunts.

But especially this line here is frightening:

  memcpy(part->name, "ISOHybrid ISO", 28);


Have a nice day :)

Thomas



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